Assistant Professor Ina Conradi
(Serbia/Slovenia/USA): Mixed media artist
Ina Conradi has been experimenting for the last 25 years with large-scale mixed-media art.
Ina received her B.F.A. in Textile Design from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts,
Serbia in 1985.
Her early work, hand woven Gobelin style tapestries, enabled her to pursue public commissions
for large architectural spaces and led her abroad to continue her studies at the University of
California at Los Angeles where she received M.F.A. in Art in 1989. Labour-intensive hand woven
tapestry become fully sculptural and monumental in scale. Continuing studies in Tokyo as a
Japan Foundation Fellow 1991-1992, her research delved into Traditional and Contemporary
Japanese Fibre and Textile Art at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and Kyoto
Seika College. Pieces became recognized as soft pliable sculptures deployed in space in the
form of porticoes of rounded counter-point gold and red masse and were exhibited in Japan
and Europe.
In the late nineties, with the surge in digital tools works, Ina made the crossover into
digital painting and new media methodologies. In collaboration with CG artist Mark Chavez,
(Dreamworks FA), her works explored different software packages used in visual effects industry
to create high impact imagery for virtual site specific installations,frequently on a scale that
dwarfs the observer. As result of this exploration, the definition of site specific waradicalized
and extended to virtually transforming non- glamorous and insignificant city spaces into
alluring attractions. Apparent was the influence of non-physical components of image.
Works were articulated through technologies existing in autostereoscopic 3D displays and flatpanel
solutions using lenticular lenses, where light emitting imagery was to be experienced
as a tangible matter.
Asst Prof. Ina Conradi is a member of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science
and Technology, (SCAAST), Union of Slovene Fine Art Arts Association, (ZDSLU), and is Japan
Foundation Fellow. She has been teaching at California State University Long Beach, LASALLE
College of the Arts and since 2007 and in the School of Art Design and Media at Nanyang
Technological University Singapore.
Current research undertaken at the School of Art Design and Media is continuing into exploring
image-making methodologies on a larger scale creating illusions that transform the viewer's
perception of actual space in a synthesis of the real and virtual. Drawing on the ideas of the
merge of digital painting and avant-garde filmmaking and sound cultures, her current work
aims to craft meaningful, immersive, interactive and 3D animated installation using digital
image, seeking innovative convergence of art and technology to transform spaces into novel
experiences. Her research explores: 1) experimental and immersive abstract computer animation,
2) responsive and reactive painted surfaces with imagery integrating experimental 3D animation,
3) oversized image creation using algorithmic paint strokes, 4) high resolution computer
rendering technique, 5) advanced print prototyping and finishing technique.